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Sorry, but the answer is not to create more potential victims.
The world’s, by its very nature, is a dangerous place. Two-legged and four-legged varmints abound. Maybe if schools were NOT a “gun free zone”, then the staff would have a fighting chance to keep their charges safe.
Everyone predicted that Florida would become the OK corral at every traffic accident. It didn’t BECAUSE those that are armed are law abiding.
I know I can’t convince you, and other nice people, that you are living in Fantasy Land if you think that by passing more laws and regulations and rules you can keep these things from happening.
Maybe I CAN convince you that what you are doing is depriving yourself of the protection of your fellow law abiding citizens and residents, who would choose to arm themselves for their protection, and that of society. See part of the benefit of unrestricted concealed carry is that the bad guys don’t know which of the good guys are sheep and which are the sheepdogs. Fatal to the bad guy if he guesses wrong!
Envision if that teacher, who had to run to call police, was “packing heat”. I don’t fault her at all. Only an idiot would try to take on an armed madman with her bare hands. Like the hijacked airline passengers. But if armed, look how the situation would have changed. While the varmint was busy boarding up the doors, would anyone have minded if she had put five in his back? If she was even charged, then I’d like to be on that jury. I’d convict the prosecutor who charged her. Five little girls would be alive and one madman dead. Hard to envision a worse outcome than the one we have now.
The “gun free schools zone” merely ensures that the madman will have no armed opposition to worry about until the police get there.
Why make it easy for them?
After all who are the police anyway? They are nothing more than the agents of the citizens. If we can empower the police to defend us, why should we defend ourselves?
Do you think that teachers, principle, and school custodians can’t tell the difference between bad guys and their students?
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